Statement on smoking and cardiovascular disease for health care professionals. American Heart Association.
Why the study?
Does cigarette smoking increase the risk of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality?
Design
American Heart Association statement
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Clinicians must prioritize smoking cessation to mitigate CHD risk; confirms smoking as a major modifiable factor in Level 1 guidelines.
Structured PICO
Does cigarette smoking increase the risk of cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality?
P
Population
General population, including persons with prior myocardial infarction, based on observational analytic studies in the United States, Europe, and Japan
I
Intervention
Cigarette smoking (exposure) and smoking cessation
C
Comparator
Non-smoking
O
Outcome
Cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality (including coronary heart disease, stroke, sudden death, peripheral artery disease, and aortic aneurysm)hard clinical
This AHA statement emphasizes that cigarette smoking is a major, avoidable cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, significantly increasing the risk of fatal and nonfatal CHD.
Cite This Study
Jonas et al. (1992) studied this question.